If the gift ever becomes more important than the Gift
Giver, then the very thing God gave you to serve His purposes is undermining His
plan for your life. God is no longer the End All and Be All. And when God becomes
the means to some other end, it's the beginning of the end spiritually because
you have inverted the gospel.
God-given gifts are wonderful things and dangerous things.
One of my recurrent prayers is this: 'Lord, don't let my gifts take me farther
than my character can sustain me.' As we cultivate the gifts God has given us,
we can begin to rely on those gifts instead of relying on God. That's when our
greatest strength becomes our greatest weakness.
-- Mark Batterson in
All In
#3670
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Friday, June 5, 2015
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